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We present FunLess, a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform tailored for the private edge cloud system. FunLess responds to recent trends that advocate for extending the coverage of serverless computing to private edge cloud systems and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Giuseppe De Palma , Saverio Giallorenzo , Jacopo Mauro , Matteo Trentin , Gianluigi Zavattaro

Serverless computing is increasingly popular because of the promise of lower cost and the convenience it provides to users who do not need to focus on server management. This has resulted in the availability of a number of proprietary and…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Junfeng Li , Sameer G. Kulkarni , K. K. Ramakrishnan , Dan Li

Serverless computing has emerged as a new paradigm for running short-lived computations in the cloud. Due to its ability to handle IoT workloads, there has been considerable interest in running serverless functions at the edge. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Bin Wang , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , Prashant Shenoy

"Rootless containers" is a concept to run the entire container runtimes and containers without the root privileges. It protects the host environment from attackers exploiting container runtime vulnerabilities. However, when rootless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Naoki Matsumoto , Akihiro Suda

Serverless computing along with Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is forming a new computing paradigm that is anticipated to found the next generation of cloud systems. The popularity of this paradigm is due to offering a highly transparent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chavit Denninnart , Thanawat Chanikaphon , Mohsen Amini Salehi

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks frequently happen on the Internet, paralyzing Internet services and causing millions of dollars of financial loss. This work presents NetFence, a scalable DoS-resistant network architecture. NetFence uses a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-09-02 Xin Liu , Xiaowei Yang , Yong Xia

Serverless computing adopts a pay-as-you-go billing model where applications are executed in stateless and shortlived containers triggered by events, resulting in a reduction of monetary costs and resource utilization. However, existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Chen Chen , Peiyuan Guan , Ziru Chen , Amir Taherkordi , Fen Hou , Lin X. Cai

Internet censors often rely on information in the first few packets of a connection to censor unwanted traffic. With the rise of the QUIC transport protocol, prior work has suggested the method of using QUIC connection migration to conceal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Seungju Lee , Mona Wang , Watson Jia , Qiang Wu , Henry Birge-Lee , Liang Wang , Prateek Mittal

Existing serverless data analytics systems rely on external storage services like S3 for data shuffling and communication between cloud functions. While this approach provides the elasticity benefits of serverless computing, it incurs…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Gang Liao , Amol Deshpande , Daniel J. Abadi

In this paper, we present a survey of research studies related to the cost-effectiveness of serverless approach and corresponding cost savings. We conducted a systematic literature review using Google Scholar search engine, covering the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Nakhat Syeda , Harsh Shah , Rajvinder Singh , Suraj Jaju , Sumedha Kumar , Gourav Chhabra , Maria Spichkova

Serverless computing is an approach to cloud computing that allows programmers to run serverless functions in response to external events. Serverless functions are priced at sub-second granularity, support transparent elasticity, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Emily Herbert , Arjun Guha

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms provide scalable and cost-efficient execution but suffer from increased latency and resource overheads in complex applications comprising multiple functions, particularly due to double billing when…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Niklas Kowallik , Natalie Carl , Leon Pöllinger , Wei Wang , Sharan Santhanam , David Bermbach

Serverless computing and stream processing represent two dominant paradigms for event-driven data processing, yet both make assumptions that render them inefficient for short-running, lightweight, and unpredictable streams that require…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Natalie Carl , Niklas Kowallik , Constantin Stahl , Trever Schirmer , Tobias Pfandzelter , David Bermbach

Due to the high scalability, infrastructure management, and pay-per-use pricing model, serverless computing has been adopted in a wide range of applications such as real-time data processing, IoT, and AI-related workflows. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Cynthia Marcelino , Sebastian Gollhofer-Berger , Thomas Pusztai , Stefan Nastic

Deep packet inspection technology became a cornerstone of Internet censorship by facilitating cheap and effective filtering of what censors consider undesired information. Moreover, filtering is not limited to simple pattern matching but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Philipp Winter , Tobias Pulls , Juergen Fuss

Serverless Computing is a virtualisation-related paradigm that promises to simplify application management and to solve the last challenges in the field: scale down and easy to use. The implied cost reduction, coupled with a simplified…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Eduard Marin , Diego Perino , Roberto Di Pietro

Censorship of the Internet is widespread around the world. As access to the web becomes increasingly ubiquitous, filtering of this resource becomes more pervasive. Transparency about specific content that citizens are denied access to is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Alexander Darer , Oliver Farnan , Joss Wright

The emergence of blockchain technology has renewed the interest in consensus-based data management systems that are resilient to failures. To maximize the throughput of these systems, we have recently seen several prototype consensus…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Dakai Kang , Sajjad Rahnama , Jelle Hellings , Mohammad Sadoghi

Traditional ML inference is evolving toward modeless inference, which abstracts the complexity of model selection from users, allowing the system to automatically choose the most appropriate model for each request based on accuracy and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 ChonLam Lao , Jiaqi Gao , Ganesh Ananthanarayanan , Aditya Akella , Minlan Yu

Next generation technologies such as smart healthcare, self-driving cars, and smart cities require new approaches to deal with the network traffic generated by the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, as well as efficient programming models to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Quoc Lap Trieu , Bahman Javadi , Jim Basilakis , Adel N. Toosi